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...monkeys, crocodiles and spiders--spends so much time on the how of special effects that it neglects the why of characterization. Jumanji wastes the gifts of two terrific comic actors, Robin Williams and David Alan Grier, and some other good people (Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt). Like the viewer, everyone on-screen pretty much sits back, gets strapped in and takes a bumpy techno-thrill ride through a haunted house...
Horwitz said the advent of the computer systems will permit faster access to cases and the ability to call up or highlight on-screen text...
...computer doesn't work. If you own a computer, I'm sure this admission doesn't surprise you. This morning, for instance, I powered up my new, $3,000 machine, hoping to check my E-mail. I launched (an optimistic verb) a communications program, and double-clicked an on-screen button...
When a script of unrealized potential is coupled with an inexperienced director, the actor have their work cut out for them. For the most part in this film, they do admirably well. McDermott is an impossible position, being on-screen for most of the movie and doing the same things over, and over but he gets a lot of mileage from the emotional intensity that worked for him as Clint Eastwood's partner in "In the Line of Fire...
...on-screen relationship between Brando and his younger co-star oddly echoes his appearance in 1990's "The Freshman" with Matthew Broderick, which was touted as Brando's last film. With Broderick happily pursuing a career in Broadway musicals, perhaps Brando felt obligated to come out of retirement and reselect a successor to assume his unique place in American cinema...